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Numerical study of turbulent flow inside a spark ignition engine cylinder

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posted on 2016-01-26, 10:37 authored by Julien A. Beauquel, Salah Ibrahim, Rui Chen
This paper presents the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling results of the transient flow inside an engine cylinder with spark ignition valve timing. Transient flow simulations at 1500 rpm are conducted and take into account the movement of the inlet, exhaust valves and the piston. The simulated in-cylinder velocities are compared to published laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) experimental data which is re-processed to illustrate the time history of mean velocities for all LDA measured points. Using the k-e RNG turbulence model, the numerical prediction seems in good agreement with the LDA measurements with an overall averaged correlation of 78.3 % for the intake and compression stroke. The development of the flow pattern inside the cylinder at the symmetrical cross section is presented where the tumble motions and their centre are described for 90 and 180 crankshaft angle degrees (CAD).

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation

Volume

8

Issue

1

Pages

28 - 28

Citation

BEAUQUEL, J.A., IBRAHIM, S.S. and CHEN, R., 2016. Numerical study of turbulent flow inside a spark ignition engine cylinder. International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 8(1), pp. 28-36.

Publisher

© Inderscience

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016

ISSN

1755-9758

eISSN

1755-9766

Language

  • en